FILM 2P54 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Private Investigator, Top, Paramount Pictures
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Grouped according to conventions, periods, movements, and modes. Short films of actual people, conditions, or facts. Unmanipulated activity of more or less general interest. Early actualities: single reel, fixed camera position, unedited. First public screening: dec. 28 1895 in the grand caf in paris. Among the most important genres of 19th & early-20th century photography. Ethnography is the study of a culture other than our own. Many early nonfiction films fell under the category of travel films. Filmmakers begin to realize the storytelling and rhetorical potential of nonfiction film (eg: kineto"s a day in the life of a coalminer) Filmmakers also begin to develop the travel & exploration genre further. Following in the footsteps of 19th & earth 20th century photographers. Nonfiction filmmakers inspire feature filmmakers to create the western genre. In the land of war canoes by edward s. curtis (1914), docudrama based on.
